THE GREAT QUESTIONS FROM HISTORY
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What does the word Pharaoh mean?
How did the ancient Egyptians call Egypt? K________
Why did the ancient Egyptians refer to Egypt as the Black Land?
What was the name given to the ‘paper’ invented by the
ancient Egyptians?
5. Why was Tutankhamen important for the ancient Egyptians?
6. What animals represented Upper and Lower Egypt?
7. In Egyptian art what was Frontalism?
8. What does Kemet mean?
9. What was the name of ancient Egyptian writing?
10. Were the ancient Egyptians Polytheistic or Monotheistic?
11. In Ancient Egyptian art people were: St_______, Id_________
in pr_________ and seen from the fr__________.
12. What is interesting about Abu Simbel?
13. Name the ancient Egyptian god of the sun
14. Name the three great Pyramids
15. Why did they build the pyramids in the shape of a pyramid?
16. Name the three ancient Egyptian kingdoms
17. In which kingdom did they build the pyramids?
18. Why did they build the pyramids and tombs on the western side
of the Nile?
19. Name one ancient Egyptian temple
20. Name one ancient Egyptian tomb that is not Abu Simbel
21. In Egypt was divided into two distinct areas, which were they?
22. What desert is south of ancient Egypt? N__________
23. Who was the first Pharaoh?
24. Who was the last Pharaoh?
25. Why did the ancient Egyptians call Egypt the Black Land?
26. Name one female Pharaoh other than Cleopatra
27. Give the dates for ancient Egypt 3________ to 3________ BC
28. Which was the first pyramid? D_____________ at Saqqara
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29. What Neolithic invention gave us organized religion in
ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia?
30. Why did the ancient Egyptians worship cats?
31. What does sarcophagus mean?
32. True or False: Slaves built the pyramids
33. In which kingdom did they build the pyramids?
34. How old are the pyramids?
35. What was the capital of Lower Egypt? M_____________
36. What was the capital of Upper Egypt? T__________
37. What did they use hieroglyphics for?
38. What does Polytheistic mean?